php-windows Digest 20 Mar 2003 22:53:28 -0000 Issue 1644
Topics (messages 19069 through 19072):
newbie popen problem
19069 by: Vince Murphy
Re: Calculationg lines of text
19070 by: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG)
Re: Subject: Calculationg lines of text
19071 by: Neil Smith
Re: Excel Spreadsheet as a datasource (Using Excel thru COM)
19072 by: Scott Hurring
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I'm new at this. I'm trying to execute the popen function in order to run
a database query on a progress database from php. I'm using
winxp/iis/php4.3.1. When I execute the function I get:
Warning: popen(\progra~1\progress\bin\_progres.exe -pf
\Inetpub\wwwroot\bimeda\prophp\prophp.pf -p
\Inetpub\wwwroot\bimeda\prophp\example1.p,r) [function.popen]: No error in
c:\php\includes\prophp.inc on line 80
Is there some trick to this?
Are pipes supported on a win32 platform correctly?
Any idea's appreciated.
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Studdy this:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php
and this:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php
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> From: Bobo Wieland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:29 PM
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> Subject: [PHP-WIN] Calculationg lines of text
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> When you're dealing with layout w text and images in documents on the web,
> where the text/images is updatable by the client, it would be nice to be
> able to calulate lines of text and charachters per line. Is there some way
> to do this in php? If not, is it possible in some other language?
> Javascript, maybe?
>
>
> .bobo
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Not really Bobo, since anybody can open their browser window in various
sizes, number of pixels per inch of screen varies, fonts have differing
character widths and so on. Javascript isnt much help here.
You can possibly have some default hidden text in a div and measure the
clientWidth or offsetWidth CSS property of it using javascript, but its no
practical use in predicting the width of the text you *want* to show.
The only way I can think of is to use fixed width fonts (ugh!) like system
fonts defaultly used inside <PRE> or <TEXTAREA> tags. Of course, users can
specify their own stylesheet overriding anything you might choose to use.
Unlucky !
So, IMO I would have to say no. Bet plan is to make a good guess and keep
your fingers crossed.
Any particular reason you might want to do this ? The trend with the web in
any case is to go for fluid layout for different browser types, platforms
and even devices (iPaq, mobile browsers, CE machines), and so its probably
justified.
HTH
Neil Smith.
At 08:13 20/03/2003 +0000, you wrote:
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Subject: Calculationg lines of text
When you're dealing with layout w text and images in documents on the web,
where the text/images is updatable by the client, it would be nice to be
able to calulate lines of text and charachters per line. Is there some way
to do this in php? If not, is it possible in some other language?
Javascript, maybe?
.bobo
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I'e done this using COM, and hacked together a little PHP class
to do some things like inserting values and starting/stopping excel.
See the code for more of an idea:
http://hurring.com/code/php/excel_class/
(Note: it is v0.1a, which basically means i wrote it on Tuesday :-)
check back at my site for more updates in the comign days/weeks)
(Im using this now in combination with GTK to develop a "standalone"
app for a Win32 machine. Excel is great becuase the managers can
simply open the file and print it and dont have to use a separate program
to generate reports)
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Scott Hurring <scotth at eac dot com>
Systems Programmer
EAC Corporation
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"Ron Herhuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Has anyone successfully used an Excel spreadsheet as a datasource? I realize
that it is a flimsy datasource but I have a need to quickly and dynamically take
the information stored in spreadsheets and manipulate the data and write them to
a SQL database.
I would be grateful for any assistance or information on how to do this.
Thanks,
Ron
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